Mosby Family History
- Mosby Name Meaning
- English (Yorkshire): habitational name, probably from Mosbrough in South Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Moresburh, from Old English mores, genitive singular of mor ‘marsh’, ‘fen’, ‘moor’ + burh ‘fortress’. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southern Norway, so named from Old Norse mós (genitive case of mór ‘sandy plain’) + býr ‘farm’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 189,518 Historical Documents with Mosby on Ancestry
- 51,943 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 31,370 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,677 Military Records
- 1,332 Immigration Records
- 97,196 Member Trees
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Number of Mosby families
 105 - 207  36 - 104 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Mosby census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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